The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-29
NATIONAL DUDES.
CON0REssMEN WHO ARn MOST
CAREFUL OF THEM DRESS.
The Delegation from Massachusetts, Out-
ranks An In This Rsspect-Fancy Farmer
Russell-New Yorlx's Fashionable Repre-
sentatives-Hon. Mr.. Campbsll's Advice.

ranks An In This Respect-FaAcy Farmer
Hussell-New York's Fashionable Repre-
sentatives-Hon. Nfr. Campbsll's Advice.
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Looking down from the gallery on the
new House one cannot help but be struck by
the large number of well-dressed men. The
appearance of the House this session seems.
to be particularly neat and stylish. The tost
snsenbs is pleasing to the eye, and especially
gratifying to stranger in the gallery, who
prides himself upon the good appearance of
one branch of the national legislature.
One cannot help but be struck as he
glances over the 3S3 members to notice that
among them there is large number Of what
are vulgarly called dudes" The term of late
has become SO generally applied to we'll
dressed man, or one who Is careful in his
dress, that one instinctively thinks of the
word when he sees neat or carefully -attired
man. I will use the word "dude'' in this
respect when referring to the members of the
House, and therefore wish to state at the out
set that while call them dudes do not
mean to infer that they have all the attrib-
utes of that character, but simply that they
are well-dressed and spruce-looking men.
Perhaps, taking it all in all, the Massachu.
sets delegation in this Congress has more
dudes in it than any other. You can glance
either on the Democratic or Republican side
and see men belonging to that highly cul-
tured State who will outshine all the other
members in the social armament.
Take, for instance, Representative Burnett.
He is tall and slim, but scrupulously and
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dyke beard" with gracefully trained mus
tache, and parts his hair in the middle. He
is rich, of good family, and shines in social
circles. He was known while at college as
one of the best athletes at Harvard, and q
story is told of him that one day when he
was going away on the train he arrived Just
as the gate closed. The train was pulling
out of the depot, and knowing that he had
missed it he walked back on the platform q
few feet, and making a run leaped directly
over the high gate, ran swiftly down the
platform and jumped on the steps of the last
car as it whizzed out of the depot.
Then there is Henry Cabot Lodge, the we'll
known litterateur. Burnett and Lodge have
had many bitter political contests, and they
tell me that the political animosity originated
in some college quarrels between Lodge and
Burnett's brother. Lodge looked down
somewhat on young Burnett, and, it is said,
took advantage of him. The college differ
ences were carried into after life, and into
the political arena. This may be true or not,
but it always seems that Lodge and Burnett
are in opposition to each other in every
political fight.
Lodge is handsome man, dresses in the
latest style, and wears his auburn beard
parted in the middle and brushed up. He
does this, perhaps, because Burnett wears
his to point. Mr.. Lodge has q weakness
for writing books for limited circulation.
He is immensely wealthy, and publishes his
books in the most expensive of editions de
lure, and limits their number to little over
hundred, and for private circulation.
Every one who visited the galleries last
session remembers Representative Hayden,
from Massachusetts,. He is the man whose
greatest delight was to go in the Senate all
last Congress and pose as q senator. He
would spend the most part of his time in
the Senate chamber, and great many visit
ors to the gallery would ask who that sena-
tor was, pointing to him as he would loll in
one of the senator's Seats Hayden generally
wears a black coat, light trousers and
light English splashers over his well-blacked
shoes. He has a habit of thrusting his
hands in his trousers pockets and walking
through the Capitol with his head bowed
and his eyes fixed on the ground. He is q
good-looking man, with full beard, some
what gray, parted in the centre, and brushed
to either side. Hayden is lucky man. He
was fortunate in getting good start in life
and is now quite rich.
Another peculiar member of the Massa-
chusetts delegation is John e. Russell. He
is known as tie fancy farmer of Massachu-
sets. He succeeded w. w. Rice, or, as he
is better known, "Windy-wordy Rice" Mr.
Russell has farm of about fifteen acres, and
he works it in the most elaborate manner.
His greatest delight is to be raising some
thing unusual in one of the acres, and it gen.
orally costs him about 800 per acre to try
his experiments. He is very fond, however,
of agriculture, and does great deal of tray
cling to investigate the subject, 80 as to in
troduce something new ON his fifteen-acre
farm. A strange thing in regard to him Is
that he says that w. W. Rice was once his
tutor and also the tutor Of his wife, and he
remarks when he speaks Of Rice, "And that
is the reason am such fool"
Livery one KNOWS Ex-Governor Long, and
how he changes his costume almost every
day; how he wears his long ulster, which
nearly trails the ground, and how he ran
away and married pretty young wife not
long ago; but the member of the delegation
who has attracted great deal of attention
SO far, although he cannot exactly be called
dude" is w. Cogswell, of Salem. He is
Republican, but his popularity is that he
greatly resembles President Cleveland. The
only difference is that Mr.. Cogswell has an
immense amount of hair on the top of his
head, which Grover Cleveland has not but
his mustache, nose, mouth and general ap-
pearance are very much those of Cleveland,
and one looking at him from the back would
be excused for pointing him out a the chief
executive of the United States.
Coming down from Massachusetts,, New
York perhaps has the next largest number
Of well-dressed men in its delegation. Among
them all Perry Belmont still holds his own.
There is something about the languid grace
and utterly Catigus movements Of Mr.. Bel
mont which has its charm for the stranger.
He is never in hurry. never excited, never
disturbed. Perhaps that il why he IL always
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